Hey all, I just started climbing around 8 months ago. I noticed my left hand (non-dominant) is now like a lot weaker than my right hand. How do i fix this? I tried leading w. my left instead of my right, but this just felt really awkward, and no matter how i try to put my force in my left it always feels like I am using my right hand more.

Hey all, I just started climbing around 8 months ago. I noticed my left hand (non-dominant) is now like a lot weaker than my right hand. How do i fix this? I tried leading w. my left instead of my right, but this just felt really awkward, and no matter how i try to put my force in my left it always feels like I am using my right hand more.

Hey all, I just started climbing around 8 months ago. I noticed my left hand (non-dominant) is now like a lot weaker than my right hand. How do i fix this? I tried leading w. my left instead of my right, but this just felt really awkward, and no matter how i try to put my force in my left it always feels like I am using my right hand more.

look to the musculature above the hands, forearm, bicep/tricep, deltoids, infraspinatus, teres minor/major, pectoral. I am wondering if you have an imbalance in those muscles that is causing nerve impingement (which would decrease strength).

Hey all, I just started climbing around 8 months ago. I noticed my left hand (non-dominant) is now like a lot weaker than my right hand. How do i fix this? I tried leading w. my left instead of my right, but this just felt really awkward, and no matter how i try to put my force in my left it always feels like I am using my right hand more.

Have you tried leading with both hands? Not just your right or left.

My thoughts exactly

Leading with one hand sounds like a game you'd play at the climbing gym.

It's not a big concern for climbing to have one hand stronger. There's different kinds of strength, so the two hands might be more evenly matched for some kinds than others.

I suggest for the future, try to make each hand as strong as that hand can be - (in the kinds of strength which are important for your favorite climbing).

As you get into higher difficulty routes and problems, there's not going to be much choice about which hand to use for the more strenuous moves, so the two hands will tend to become more similar in strength. But if not, then you might find that certain problems are easier for you because you've got extra strength on the appropriate side for that move.

I noticed my left hand (non-dominant) is now like a lot weaker than my right hand.

To have a side of your body different than the other is natural in human. That means that one side of your body is weaker than the other side. You probably have a feet and leg longer than the other. it is genetic.

You can train in a gym to strengthen your weaker arm. If you do pull up, try to work with a machine or elastic where you can train just one arm at the time. Use your weaker arm first and train the second arm after with the same weight. If you do both arm in the same time, one arm can pull 80 pounds an the other 60. You will pull 140 pounds. You will have unbalance on your back an eventually an injury. With a lot of training, you will pull 70 pounds on each arms.

I think that you are right. I had some injury in the past because I wasn't training my back correctly. I was very strong in one angle, but weak on an other angle. Mostly muscle stretch when you load to rapidly a muscle who was not strong enough to hold the weight. I never had an injury because my left hand is weaker than my right.